Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Lifeforms

Bullfrogs.
Termites.
Baby beeches, but you’ve gotta be quick, before the mower death squads.
Puccinia liliacearum, a rust fungus on some kind of Liliales.
Digger bee on crabapple.
Garlic Penny-Cress (Mummenhoffia alliacea)
Leaf shelter of a Rhopalosiphum cherry-grass aphid. Starts life on rose family plants, then moves to grasses in the summer. This is an ornamental cherry leaf.
Swamp alder.

mthew

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